Your observations are about as useful as someone looking at JJ Watt and saying he is roiding. KR has spent the equivalent of 10 lifetimes smoking. Plus he is immortal. I think the cult Price was in has a big part in this death. Cults kill all the time. Wait for autopsy and estate details.
My opinion is you can't take these pills for a long duration and not be an addict dependent on them. Whether it started because of his hip or started a long time ago, it's plausible he could have self-medicated for years. I doubt anyone who was that close to him would want to tarnish his image by admitting that or confirming the drug dealer's story...assuming they even knew. If his toxicology report comes back saying pills killed him due to overdose, then he likely had a problem and it may have finally caught up with him. If his flu was so bad, then how the hell would he even get out of bed let alone perform? Seems fishy.
Um...someone had a 15 year old....vs an adult? People appearance can change dramatically with lifestyle..........and make up.
He may have had minor nose work done early in his career. However, that could be just age changes from adolescence to adulthood.
Spoiler 18ish Spoiler 21-22 Spoiler 25/26 Spoiler 28/29 Spoiler Around 50. Spoiler Earlier this year. hairstyles and makeup makes him look different. However, look at the last photo.
A lot of tributes to Prince at today's NHL game 6 between the Minnesota Wild and Dallas Stars. They also changed the music they play after the Wild score from a Joe Satriani riff to Let's Go Crazy. I don't usually associate Prince with hockey but that seemed to work pretty well.
He's absolutely had some kind of face lift, you can see it in later pics if you know what you're looking for!!!
One of the very first music I bought was a 45 of Let's go Crazy. I bought it at the flea market on Airline. I bought that and Sussudio. A lot of his music I didn't really get into. But I always like that song and Little red Corvette.
http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/12/19/phil-collins-sussudio-prince-1999/ The similarities between Phil Collins’ 1985 charttopper “Sussudio” and Prince’s earlier Top 15 1982 hit “1999” are undeniable — even to Collins himself, it turns out. Daryl Stuermer, a regular Collins sideman, takes us inside the sessions for No Jacket Required, held 30 years ago this month. “Many people thought the song ‘Sussudio’ mimicked Prince’s song ‘1999,’ Stuermer tells Chris Williams of Soul Culture. “Phil never ran away from that idea. He said he was definitely influenced by that song. He was a huge fan of Prince.” Stuermer, who began working with Phil Collins as a touring member of Genesis, ultimately co-wrote three of the songs on No Jacket Required, playing guitar on every track and adding keyboards on another. He worked with Collins from the first on constructing this breakthrough release, arriving at the sessions for “Sussudio” when the song was in a very raw form. At that point, Stuermer says, the resemblance with Prince’s track was even more pronounced. “I remember when I first had the demo for ‘Sussudio,’ there wasn’t a bass part on the song at all,” he says. “The bass line in the song changed how it first sounded, so it actually ended up sounded less like ‘1999’ after the bass line was laid down. It was a synthesizer bass line [performed by David Frank, of the System]. There were great horn parts on the record too. The horn section was arranged by a guy named Thomas Washington [of Earth Wind and Fire fame].”
I hate to think it's another drug overdose. How awful. If the reports about Percocet are accurate, Prince died from an overdose of Acetaminophen, which is really just advil/tylenol/APAP. That would make sense with his complaints of stomach issues. I think the maximum dose of advil/tylenol is like 4,000 mg per day, so if Prince was taking a bunch of Percocet, he was probably exceeding the recommended advil/tylenol dose. That would destroy your liver,intestines and major organs after a while. The "Dr. D" story that someone posted makes more sense, ufortunately. If Prince really had such extreme anxiety, he was probably self-medicating. With his small size, I wonder if it took much of anything to topple him. Honestly, I hope Prince died of something more natural, or as many have suggested, pneumonia, instead of a sad,addiction-based demise. From what I've read, he sounded like a really decent person outside of his stage persona. I wasn't anything close to being a huge fan, but I respect the craft, and I can see/hear his influence in a lot of the music I enjoy.
Interesting hearing about his charitable work and his religion (via Van Jones). http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/22/opinions/prince-eight-things-to-know-jones/
I've seen this video before but never with the commentary explaining it. I've always wondered why it sounds exactly like the album version. Because it IS the album version - with all the edits explained by the commentary. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3AhqtQ790wE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
